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Becoming Jewish at a Catholic university
Growing up in Harrison, New York, 10 minutes outside the Bronx, everyone I knew was Italian, Jewish or both.Mine was a pretty secular home, run by an Italian-Catholic mother and a Canadian-Jewish...
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For some women fleeing violence, safety means changing US law ‘stuck in the...
Put yourself in a place where, if you face danger, it comes down to two decisions: stay or go. That’s what happened to Nina, and the danger came from her own family. It had to do with the man she...
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In northern Thailand, female prisoners are getting a second chance. Through...
Ponnipa Chanpeng says she didn't have any other options. When she was 22, both her parents died, leaving her to take care of a younger brother — and her father's debt. Family couldn't help. Creditors...
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Why Canada has to import much of its sperm from the US
Canada's 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act is one of the most comprehensive and ethical laws in the world when it comes to regulating the business of fertility. But aspects of it create a huge...
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One way to make your country richer and safer? Fix laws that keep women down,...
The World Bank is not known for its bra-burning campaigns for gender equality, but its latest report, Women, Business and the Law 2016: Getting to Equal, shows how discrimination against women can hurt...
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'Maternity harassment' is so common in the Japanese workplace, they invented...
In many workplaces around the world, the presence of pregnant co-workers doesn't raise an eyebrow. It's considered old-fashioned — even primitive — to complain that a pregnant woman in the office isn't...
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The promise of justice is receding, Nicaraguan women say
About a third of women in Nicaragua experience partner violence, and more than 15 percent have experienced sexual violence, according to the Pan American Health Organization. So in 2012, Nicaraguan...
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Brewing sake in Japan is becoming a woman's game — again
For a long time, sake brewing in Japan was an industry made up of owners who didn’t brew the sake themselves, and migrant master brewers, called Toji, who would live at distilleries in the winter...
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Marine Corps commander says others' expectations, not women's ability, are...
A report released on by the US Marine Corps on Thursday stated that all-male ground combat units are more effective than those that include women. The report comes just ahead of the mandated gender...
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In perilous times, a triumph for these young women
The seven girls graduating from the school here on the outskirts of Kabul this fall have seen each other through Afghan culture’s unique coming-of-age rites, and they have pulled together during the...
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India's 'Power Girls' fight sexual violence and harassment that once made...
Editor's Note: Filmmaker Jayisha Patel has been creating short docs on women's issues and justice in India for some time now. Her most recent film Power Girls focuses on a group of young survivors of...
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How come there are no girls? Pregnant women in India want to know.
The issue of sex-selective abortion is a huge and complex problem in parts of India. It’s led to gender imbalances in some Indian states that have reached “emergency proportions,” according to the...
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It took a bride shortage for some northern India communities to realize the...
In India, there are towns and villages with a drastically higher number of men compared to women. The northern state of Haryana has the worst gender ratio in the country: 879 women for every 1000...
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On the ground in Mumbai with Across Women's Lives: Day one
As the Across Women's Lives team travels the chaotic streets of Mumbai meeting inspirational women and reporting on their feats of feminism this week, we'd like to give you a peek into the reporting...
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Diplomats at the UN this week will be greeted by faces of women persecuted...
When the United Nations General Assembly opens later this week, diplomats from all over the world will be greeted by a selection of photographs at the US Mission.Bahareh Hedayat, is a student activist...
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The outraged muses of María María Acha-Kutscher
María María Acha-Kutscher is a Peruvian illustrator based in Spain who focuses on taking the oft-overlooked women who protest and organize for social change out of the shadows and into the history...
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After the floods come the human traffickers, but these girls are fighting back
The Sundarbans — a collection of densely populated islands in India’s sprawling Ganges delta — are so remote that the only way to get there is by boat. But human traffickers still manage to get in, and...
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This Indian mother takes her husband's abuse to protect her daughter
It’s a bleak set of options: Stay with your abusive and alcoholic husband, or raise your children homeless and without a father in a culture that persecutes single mothers. That's the decision that...
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Angy Rivera hopes to make 'coming out' as undocumented less taboo
It's been three years since immigration activist Angy Rivera and documentary filmmaker Mikaela Shwer met in August of 2012. After stumbling upon Rivera's 'Ask Angy' column, the first advice column for...
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Mumbai slum dwellers say 'I have to help' stop violence against women
The Dharavi slum in Mumbai can be overwhelming to a visitor: Full of smells, noise, and curious stares. No one really knows how many people live here — maybe 300,000, maybe a million.Residents are...
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